So, no posts recently because honestly, there hasn't been much in the way of DX recently.
Oh sure, there have been a few smaller catches on the AM side, and I still have hours of recordings from the most recent FM opening (to say nothing of what is still sitting there from this summer) that could produce some new entries.
But as they say, nothing to 'write home about".
I have though been working tirelessly at a few projects, most notably, a logbook entry project for my MW logs from Brasstown, North Carolina.
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From 1993 to 2010, my Brasstown MW logs were confined to the "old school" format of an ARRL spiral logbook. I hadn't yet made the transition while I was in Brasstown to a computerized logbook as I did when I was in Charleston.
But, I wanted to do a few things:
- I wanted to begin a 'lifetime' logbook that contained everything I had ever logged at my various home locations as well as total up how many stations I had logged overall as well as how many total countries, total states, logs per state/country, etc.
- I wanted to bring my Brasstown logbook online to allow for the full suite of data analysis I have completed with my other logbooks from Charleston and Mandeville
- I wanted to have a baseline of previously received stations to use for my review of the recordings made back in October in Brasstown during our last week on Dog Branch Road.
So, to accomplish all of this, I had to go line by line, entry by entry, log by log and enter 17 years of AM DX into my Google Form. It was a long process, but late in the evening last night (Sunday) I put a wrap on the work.
Next, I have to build the Website to hold all of the analysis/data, but since I want to actually use this as an opportunity to create a video showing my process, I am going to wait until I have a little more free time for that project.
I will next be digitizing my Greer logbook (about 20 pages of manual logbook entry, compared to Brasstown's 33 pages) soon. Just in time for that project, I found a number of audio files I recorded on my computer from my AMDX in Greer, so I should have at least a handful of airchecks from Greer/2012. I posted the first in the series: WDEL, on the YouTube channel this weekend.
In other news, we are waiting patiently for the shipment (should be this week) of the new KiwiSDR2 that we will be installing at our satellite branch of Northshore Studios. I am currently working up an antenna design that will provide what should be excellent reception into Colombia/South America from Mandeville.
On to the next....
73 and best of DX;
Loyd
